Category: Labor Union
Primary Power Base: South Loop, Bridgeport, Union Yards
Reach: Citywide
Veil Involvement: Rumored  

Public Face

IBEW Local 134 presents itself as a proud brotherhood of licensed electricians, essential to every major civic project in Chicago. Their hall runs apprenticeships, job placements, safety programs, and proudly partners with municipal authorities on infrastructure. Officially, they are champions of labor rights and safe working conditions for electrical workers citywide.  

True Influence

In practice, 134 holds the breaker box to the city’s electrical grid—construction permits, union contracts, inspectors, zoning overrides, and political leverage flow through them. If you want to wire up a skyscraper, renovate a precinct, or fix that blown transformer on Ashland, you’ll be paying dues one way or another. Some say they’ve even wired ritual wards into certain buildings, paid for in full by parties who don’t want the lights to ever go out.  

Known Members

• Louie “Splice” DeMarco, Business Manager – Charismatic, calculating, has dinner with aldermen and drinks with bookies.
• Dolores Vega, Treasurer – Keeps clean books on the surface, but there’s a second ledger in the locked drawer—one with names and blood prices.
• “Sparky” Ned Vachon, Enforcer – Electrical burns along his left arm. Rumored to enjoy giving shock therapy to slow payers.
• Reverend Alvin Briggs, Chaplain – Runs Sunday prayer… and Wednesday Veil safety briefings for those who work the darker jobs.

 

Allies & Rivals

• Allies: Quinn Construction Co., CPD Facilities Division, Southside Sinners (through shared labor ties)
• Rivals: Amalgamated Meat Cutters (disputes over city contracts), Veil Watchers (don’t like the wiring rituals), Firefighter Local 2 (old grudge from the ’47 Tunnel Job)

 

Assets & Quirks

• Asset: “The Box” – a guarded basement room under Union Hall said to contain schematics for the city's oldest conduits—including Veil-sensitive sites.
• Quirks: Every member carries a brass fuse stamped with a runic mark; they claim it “blows hot” when Veil interference is near.
• Quirks: No meetings after dark during lunar eclipses—too many sparks, too many screams.

 

Current Agenda

They’re lobbying to gain exclusive rights to retrofit several old Loop buildings with “Veil-safe” wiring. Rumor says they’ve already cut deals with certain Aldermen to slip protections into city code. Meanwhile, a push for more field control has members quietly replacing older cabling with lines braided in copper, lead, and something else.  

Rumors & Hooks

• Some say 134’s wiring is alive—reactive to blood, prayer, or whispered oaths.
• The old IBEW building on Van Buren burned twice and still hums at night—no electricity on the block.
• A secret Veil training crew exists inside the union, prepping initiates to safely “cut the current” in Bleed Zones.
• A breaker panel on the South Side exploded when an unlicensed contractor tried to tap into it—no Veil exposure reported, but his heart stopped mid-joke.
• A copper golem—half-myth, half-machine—was last seen crawling the ceiling of the 134 maintenance tunnels beneath Grant Park.
• A blackout last winter corresponded with a failed summoning in Little Village. The generator cables were ripped out… from the inside.
• PCs may need a Veil-safe zone set up fast, but the only way to do it without tipping off the cops is calling in a favor from 134.
• A character’s family member might be a journeyman with a secret—he saw something in the wires and hasn’t spoken since.
• Louie DeMarco might offer the crew a side contract: replace ritual grounding rods in a condemned factory before “someone else” gets there first.